ChiKat, I'm making a pit stop, and then I'm on the road. I'll see you in an hour!!
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Mar 23, 2006 2:33:09 pm PST #5889 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
ChiKat - Mar 23, 2006 2:35:33 pm PST #5890 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Woo hoo! Mojitos!!
Sean K - Mar 23, 2006 2:51:23 pm PST #5891 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Move over Bird Flu, a new version of the old, reliable tuberculosis may wind up being the next global pandemic.
DXMachina - Mar 23, 2006 2:52:21 pm PST #5892 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
the old, reliable tuberculosis
There's a reason it's a classic...
msbelle - Mar 23, 2006 4:15:05 pm PST #5893 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
being home and in pjs and off of feet is good. sleep will be better, but must unwind.
libkitty - Mar 23, 2006 4:27:18 pm PST #5894 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Christianity--or any other religion--doesn't make you moral or ethical. Morals and ethics make you the type of Christian--or other faith--you are.
Beverly, do you mind if I tag this?
I got down to the printer and discovered that it wouldn't power up. I traced the plug back to a power strip. I traced the power strip to an extension cord. I traced the extension cord back to the same power strip.
I'm proud to say that while I have made many stoopid tech support calls, I actually fixed this for a public workstation when the tech support didn't notice it. t /preening
Lee - Mar 23, 2006 4:27:31 pm PST #5895 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Also good and happy?
MONKEY NOODLE
msbelle - Mar 23, 2006 4:35:24 pm PST #5896 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Monkey Noodle really is good and happy.
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2006 4:36:06 pm PST #5897 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Monkey Noodle really is good and happy.
Not as happy as KPRINKLE.
billytea - Mar 23, 2006 4:42:56 pm PST #5898 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Christianity--or any other religion--doesn't make you moral or ethical. Morals and ethics make you the type of Christian--or other faith--you are.
When I stopped being a Christian, the thinking that took me there revolved around the statement "God is good." Interestingly, this was a key consideration in Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not A Christian too. Anyway, the question is, what do we understand by this? Is it that we come to an understanding of God otherwise, and we understand good to be His will? Or is it that we understand the distinction between good and evil, and God too is subject to the demands of morality? Russell, as I recall, was more interested in the first conclusion, which leaves God without any guidance or standard for action; any arbitrary action of His becomes by definition good. I was interested in the latter, that if morality existed independent of God - things that are good given the existence of God must still be good without Him - then is there not something higher than God? And what use, then, is God? I basically ontological proof'd myself out of believing in God.
Nowadays, I would have a different answer to the question, namely that for the believer (one who lives by Micah 6:8, anyway), the two concepts are not sufficiently separable to make one subject to the other. The understanding of each influences the understanding of the other. And I really like people of faith like that. But interestingly, it doesn't take me back over the bridge.